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  1. Paul Clapham

    Veraguas or Veraguan Mango?

    I've been going through my large collection of bird names to see how people are following that convention. Like Nightjar61 said, if it's a country's name then maybe the noun form is used and maybe the adjectival form is used, but generally one or the other is used consistently. Although there...
  2. Paul Clapham

    Veraguas or Veraguan Mango?

    I've seen discussion of that "rule" in the past and I vaguely remember the discussion as being in the context of the Americas. I say "vaguely" because it was quite a long time ago. So I just tracked down what may be the result of those discussions: Guidelines for English Bird Names Guideline...
  3. Paul Clapham

    Veraguas or Veraguan Mango?

    FWIW, BirdLife International is still using "Veraguas Mango". As for that convention, you say "Canada Warbler" instead of "Canadian Warbler" because Canada is a country, but since California is below country level, you should say "Californian Condor" and "Californian Quail"... okay, I haven't...
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